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Shardlow Hall is a 17th-century former country house at Shardlow, Derbyshire now in use as commercial offices. It is a Grade II* listed building which is officially listed on the Buildings at Risk Register. [1] The house was built in 1684 for Leonard Fosbrooke, originally to an H-plan design with two storeys with parapets and a six-bay entrance ...
Shardlow is a village in Derbyshire, England about 6 miles (9.7 km) southeast of Derby and 11 miles (18 km) southwest of Nottingham.Part of the civil parish of Shardlow and Great Wilne, and the district of South Derbyshire, it is also very close to the border with Leicestershire, defined by the route of the River Trent which passes close to the south.
A cottage with a house, now a public house, added to the north in the early 19th century. The early part is rendered and has a slate roof, one storey and an attic, and two bays . The later part is in rendered brick with a stepped eaves band and a tile roof, two storeys and two bays.
The manor house was built in the 1840s for Francis Wright of the Butterley Iron Company. He sold the estate to Sir Andrew Barclay Walker, 1st Baronet in 1888. The baronetcy was created for him in 1886. The house was used as a Red Cross hospital during World War II. [61] Osmaston Manor was demolished in 1964. [62]
Shardlow and Great Wilne is a civil parish in the South Derbyshire district of the English county of Derbyshire. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 Census was 1,199. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 Census was 1,199.
The stone building at Knap of Howar, Orkney, one of the oldest surviving houses in north-west Europe. The oldest house for which there is evidence in Scotland is the oval structure of wooden posts found at South Queensferry near the Firth of Forth, dating from the Mesolithic period, about 8240 BCE. [1]
After many years of neglect, in November 1919 the estate was bought by a group of local businessmen who asset-stripped the house; this went as far as removing the roof in 1920. Some parts of the building were shipped to the United States, where one room's oak panelling was bought by newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst , who planned to use ...